"During my holdout, I listen to the Kwok Talk podcast. My English isn't that good, but I think the podcast probably is better that way," said Milwaukee Bucks holdout Yi Jianlian (supposedly).  This week set our sights upon The Chariot's album The Fiancee, Sam & Twitch: The Brian Michael Bendis Collection, Green Lantern Corps #14, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #5, The Immortal Iron Fist #7, Hairspray, Refused, chihuahua heroes, pooping money, and naked fat men.
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Question of the week: Would you rather be a death metal rock star or a detective?
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This week we proudly welcome Pol (The Fuzzy Typewrite podcast) and Angela (Stand Out in the Stash podcast) to talk about Grant Morrison's We3 and the current week in comics. All by my lonesome self, I discuss Transformers, Wilco's Sky Blue Sky, The Rolling Stones, and how to lose your job as a living goddess.
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Question of the week: Would you rather own a cybernetic dog killing machine or Transformer?
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In light of the 4th, we have a patriotic firework-themed review extravaganza:

New Warriors #2 - The "that explosion was so big, I lost sight and sound for a minute" award for the week. I'm still completely sold on this series so far as a nice compliment to Avengers: The Initiative.  Aside from a weird ending panel of Jubilee where her head seems a bit too small for her body, I really enjoy Medina's art. Cartoony? Yes, but I'm loving it. The mystery of the NW still sticks and the appearance of Jubilee was great in this issue. The wheels might fall off down the line, but I'm on for the ride for now. Grade: A

Runaways #27 - The "oh shoot, I accidentally lit the whole bag of firecrackers on fire, run now" award for the week. I've been very critical of Whedon's run so far, but I sat back and put aside that negativity and found myself enjoying this issue. I thought the time-travelling thing would be boring, but I've liked the twist at the end and the potential emotion to come from that. Also seeing Karolina pummel the would be attacker was nice. OK, Joss, you've won me back for now... Grade: A-

Battling Jack Murdock #2 - The "I held onto the M80 too long and all I got was this bloody stump of an arm" award for the week. I liked this book, but what really won me over was the scene where Matt confronts his dad. When Matt stood up to his dad after the first hit, I thought that'd be it. Instead, we see Jack become even more of a despicable person, despite our desire to want to inherently like him. Grade: B+

Countdown #43 - The "that firecracker went up my nose and now I can't smell things" award for the week. I missed out on Bart's death, so I can only imagine how much more poignant this would've been. I enjoyed them flipping between a lot of the storylines within the funeral, most enjoying the Piper & Trickster scenes.  And finally we get to begin the search for Ray Palmer.  Forerunner still hasn't become appealing. The big gripe I have for the issue is the art, which looks really bad at times.  Grade: B

Uncanny X-Men #488 - The "that's all it does?" award for the week. I question whether I should've hopped back onto UXM. It wasn't horrible with signs of the eventual build to finding Magneto, but was far from being good/great. Grade: C-

Jonah Hex #21 - The "is it going to go off? let me check- oh crap, get out of the way!" award for the week. I thought I had dropped it, but still ended up picking it up. Seriously, for the last few issues I had to re-read just to figure out what the heck happened. I really don't understand how this issue concluded.  Maybe I'm dumb (probably). Dropped. Just not for me.  Grade: D

Marvel Zombies vs. AOD #5 -  The "oh wait, these are chopsticks, not bottle rockets" award of the week. It's over. Done. Grade: D-